The Media Shills for User Fees

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:59:03 -0700, C J Campbell
wrote:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/35souz

http://preview.tinyurl.com/34p9ap

Huh. No mention of av-gas taxes in either of these articles, nor any
comment on what money-losers other transportation facilities like roads
are.

Am familiar with a local corporate flight department. They operated 2
mid-size bizjets what the NBAA considers to be the "average" number of
flight hours last year.

They paid around $65,000 in FET on fuel last year. For the airlines,
burning the same number of gallons would be around $12,000 in FET.

The really neat factoid is that over half of the $66K was "spent" at
the local FBO, which chooses NOT to file as an "aviation end user" or
whatever they call it. The way I understand the law (as of October
2005 ?) means that $30K or so in FET went into the federal highway
fund.

TC